X-Message-Number: 9301
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #9284 - #9292
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 00:17:42 -0800 (PST)

Hi everyone!

To Mike and others who have continued the discussion on humans and computers,
sorry! I have to get up early tomorrow and don't have time to answer your
stunning ripostes.

I will add, though, that since real Turing machines are impossible (because
they have an infinite tape) it seems odd to argue that a machine able to
mark down real numbers (ie. infinite decimal numbers) or have components
a real number distance apart (such as pi or sqrt(2)) should be dismissed
merely because infinite decimal numbers are impossible. But enough! I really
do have to go to bed.

			Best wishes and long long life to all,

				Thomas Donaldson

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